The Little Girl in the Classroom Will Break Your Heart!

Sad, upsetting, surprising, enlightening, infuriating – just some of the words we use to describe ‘Dark Girls’ – a documentary “exploring the deep-seated biases and attitudes about skin colour — particularly dark skinned women, outside of and within the Black American culture.”

We dare you to watch it and not be moved!

We remember seeing a documentary about a black Canadian model trying to make it at NY Fashion Week being told that she had the potential to be a success as she didn’t have traditional ‘black’ features, that really casting agents were looking for white girls dipped in chocolate. She was shocked and so were we.

It’s a thorny issue that deserves an article all of its own, but before we do that, we’d love to get your thoughts and experiences on the matter.